It really is most unfair for Moor & Coast to be attacked over providing a service which no one else (including Whitby Folk Week) was prepared to offer.

I am told that the reason Whitby Folk Week decided to cease using the Community College was due to the totally unrealistic cost and conditions being imposed by the college.

It follows from this that the charges merely reflect those costs and conditions.

The days of free (or virtually free) anything are at an end not the least because of the continuing escalation of the cost and hassle of staging anything due to the ever increasing burden imposed by the Nanny State dictated by our beloved leaders.

hey ho